Loop-and-stud connection.



No. 857,901. PATENTED JUNE-1'25. 1907.

J. H. PILKINGTON.

LOOP AND STUD CONNECTION. APPLIOATION TILED FEB. 20, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SMITH 8: GRIGGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF VVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

LOOP-AND-STUD CONNECTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed February 20,1907- Serial No- 358,398.

To It whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. PILKINGTON, a citizen of the Unlted States, residing at Waterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loop-and-Stud Connections, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in stud and loop connections, and is chiefly useful for garment supporters.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and effective means to prevent accidental disengagement of the parts when assembled.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown the invention as applied to the usual mens hose supporter.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the stud and loop connection as it appears in operation. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the stud portion. Fig 3 is a plan view of the loop portion. Fig. 4 is a section on the line X-X Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section 011 the line Y-Y Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the parts assembled and taken on arelatively enlarged scale.

1 is the stud.

2 is the loop, which has the usual key-hole The supporting plate 3 for the stud may be suitably constructed to receive the webbing i ordinarily used with a hose supporter. The rear of the loop 2 may also be suitably constructed to receive the end of said webbing. The webbing may be secured to these parts as indicated in Fig.1.

4 is that part of the webbing which eX- tends down to the fastener (not shown) by which the article is secured to the hose. On the lower side of the loop, at or very near its forward end, is an offset nib or rib 5. On

the opposite side of the loop slightly to the rear of said rib 5 is a hump 6. In the form shown each side bar of said loop is provided with one of these humps 6. In plate 3 is a recess or groove 3 so positioned that when the loop is slid into place so as to stand as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, the nib 5 of the loop will project into this groove or recess 3 so that the loop 2 will be held against accidental detachment. In the form shown, the humps 6 will be seen to bear under the head of the stud 1 when the connection is made. By this means the nib 5 is held in the recess 3 The nib is so shaped that the opposite sides incline, as bestseen in the enlarged view, Fig. 6, hence, by exerting sufficient endwise pressure on the loop the nib will ride up out of the recess 3 so that the parts may be detached at will, the resiliency of the metal permitting the necessary spring.

In the preferred form, the groove or recess 3" is formed on the arc of a circle with the stud 1 as the axis. So also is the nib or rib 5, although the latter is preferably of less length than the length of said groove or recess, so that the loop may be self-adjusting to the proper angle relatively to the axis of the stud.

What I claim is:

1. A stud and loop connection comprising a stud, a support therefor, a loop having a key-hole opening adapted to receive the stud, the stud support having an opening therein, a projection on the loop arranged to normally stand in said opening when the parts are assembled.

2. A stud and loop connection comprising a stud, a support therefor, a loop having a key-hole opening adapted to receive the stud, the stud support having an opening therein, a projection on the loop arranged to normally stand in said opening when the parts are assembled, and a raised portion on the loop arranged to bear under the stud head to yieldingly hold said projection in said recess.

3. A stud and loop connection comprising a stud, a support therefor, a loop having a key-hole opening adapted to receive the stud, the stud support having an opening therein, aprojection on the loop arranged to normally stand in said opening when the parts are assembled, said recess being curved to permit the loop to be freely self-adjusting.

4:. A stud and loop connection comprising a stud, a support therefor, a loop having a key-hole opening adapted to receive the stud, the stud support having an opening therein, a projection on the loop arranged to normally stand in said recess when the parts are assembled, said opening and said projection being curved on an arc with the stud as the center, the projection being shorter than the opening.

5. A stud and loop connection comprising a stud, a support therefor, a loop having a key-hole opening adapted to receive the stud, the stud support having an opening therein, a projection on the loop arranged to normally stand in said opening when the parts are assembled, a portion of said loop ro ing a stud, a support therefor, a loop having an opening adapted to receive the stud, said stud support having a semi-circular opening therein, a projection on the loop arranged to engage in said opening When the parts are assembled, and a raised portion on each side of the loop adapted to engage the under side of the stud at one side of the central line thereof opposite the said projection.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON. Witnesses CASIMIR H. BRONSON, KATHRYN V. TAYLOR. 

